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When they're crafting new looks for men and women, the free-spirited stylists at 331 Salon blend a sense of current fashion trends with their own creativity. They trim split ends, re-sculpt outmoded styles or enliven locks with highlights and color that push toward the experimental while sticking to the look the client wants. The salon's wooden walls overhear more than snipping shears or the deafening sound of hair clippings thumping onto the floor?the team also takes care of unwanted stubble with professional waxing services.

Using skills and training they've gained over the years, the stylists at LaMode Salon revivify tresses with an arsenal of Aveda products. The highley-praised salon’s membership in the Aveda network ensures that the salon retains a bountiful stock of products and the stylists wielding them benefit from ongoing education. Full-color and foil treatments imbue manes with rich hues, while color-correction services allow patrons to reverse the decision to transform their hair into the color of dust.

Once guests step under the red-and-white striped awning that marks the entrance to Salon Rouge, they're transported to France. The salon's ruby-red entryway leads to a chic space where the glows of chandeliers bounce off marble floors and papered walls. Antique armoire mirrors capture reflections of a mix of Parisian flea-market finds and upscale, modern touches, such as European shampoo bowls.
Veteran salon owner and stylist Richard Staab owned an art deco?styled salon before selling it and moving to the salon?s current location, formerly a century-old condo basement.
Amid this festive backdrop, Staab's team of expert stylists tends to tresses with top-quality products from Oribe, Kevin Murphy, and Savon de Marseille. Additional beauty products line the shelves, such as perfumes from Comme des Gar?ons, allowing guests to look and smell more authentically French than a Croissan'Wich.

Within Twist Hair Studio's chocolate-y walls, stylists create new looks for their clients through haircuts and colors, facial waxing, eyelash extensions, and airbrush-makeup applications. But what really sets the modern salon apart is its specialization in hair extensions. Resident hair extenders add length and volume by applying human hair extensions that blend in with clients' natural hair. Stylists dispense several lock-enhancing options, including micro hair extensions, which help mask the appearance of hair loss, and UltraStrands hair extensions to add highlights and lowlights without using chemicals. Each visit includes a complimentary consultation to discuss desires and to arrive on the best extension.

Much like the nearby Guthrie Theater, Level Salon exemplifies the Mill District?s reemergence as one of the Twin Cities? preeminent places to see and be seen. Clients come from all over to entrust their hair to the salon?s stylists, who are renowned for creating bold new looks with cuts, coloring treatments, perms, and extensions. It?s also not a bad idea, as many loyal regulars have found, to stop by the salon for a manicure or brow wax before a night out at the nearby theater. As if to assert the arrival of elegance in an area once famed for its flour mills, the salon houses a swirling crystal chandelier and floor-to-ceiling curtains made of billowy dough.